The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private J Palmer

Photograph by "International Wargraves Photography Project"

Private John Arthur PALMER, G/24731, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 9th April 1917.

Born Strood, Kent.

1905 March Quarter, Maidstone Registration District, John Arthur Palmer, married *Florence Horton. *born 15th May 1877.

Children - Lily Winifred Horton Palmer, born 5th February 1903; Percy Stanley Palmer, born 10th October 1905; Ernest West Palmer, born 17th April 1908; Ivy Palmer, born 24th December 1910.

1911 Census - 88 Kingsley Road, Maidstone, Kent - John Arthur Palmer, head, age 25, married, papermaker, paper mills, worker, born Strood, Kent; Florence Palmer, wife, age 33, married 6 years, 3 children all still alive, born Maidstone, Kent; Florence May Horton, brother in law, (child crossed through), age 12, school, born Maidstone, Kent; Lily Winifred Horton, brother in law, (child crossed through), age 8, born Maidstone, Kent; Percy Stanley Palmer, son, (child crossed through), age 5, born Maidstone, Kent; Ernest West Palmer, son, (child crossed through), age 2, born Maidstone, Kent; Ivy Palmer, daughter, (child crossed through), age 3 months, born Maidstone, Kent.

Enlisted Maidstone, Kent. Resided Maidstone, Kent.

Buried at Feuchy Chapel British Cemetery, III. I. 16., Wancourt, France.

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